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Heinrich Heine
Heine
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Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), German-Jewish lyric poet widely read in 19th-century Hungary; Madách quotes a couplet from the Buch der Lieder to express love as the only hold on human life.
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- On Women and Their Vocation §1 Heine
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), German-Jewish lyric poet widely read in 19th-century Hungary; the couplet Madách quotes is from his late poetry, expressing the indispensability of love to human life.